ati drivers keep reverting to mesa

[jigyb007]

Hello, everyone.

I am having the problem if properly installing ATI proprietary drivers. I have visited many forums and many guides but still can't not find a solution to my problem. I followed the guide at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide on installing the drivers. The drivers install fine after reboot. And I was able to install beryl. The problem is beryl keeps crashing. The drivers keep resorting back the originally mesa drivers. I have added the original drivers to restricted module list, and made sure the ati was changed to fglrx in the xorg.conf file. But, the for some reason the kubuntu keeps resorting to the mesa drivers. I am running an Radeon Xpress 200M. Anyone, have been succesfully able to get these to work ? If not, can I completely remove the mesa drivers. I have been working with this for a few days, and I am completely stuck now. Any help is much appreciated.
here are the key parts xorg file. Please provide any help with this, I am totally lost. Thanks..

Section "Module"
	Load "i2c"
	Load "bitmap"
	Load "ddc"
	Load "dri"
	Load "extmod"
	Load "freetype"
	Load "int10"
	Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection


Section "Device"
	Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
	Driver   "fglrx"
	Option	  "VideoOverlay" "on"
	Option	  "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
	BusID    "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver   "fglrx"
	Option	  "VideoOverlay" "on"
	Option	  "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Default Screen"
	Device   "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
	Monitor  "Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth   24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   1
		Modes  "1280x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   4
		Modes  "1280x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   8
		Modes  "1280x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   15
		Modes  "1280x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   16
		Modes  "1280x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   24
		Modes  "1280x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
	Device   "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Monitor  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	DefaultDepth   24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport  0 0
		Depth   24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode     0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	  "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

[SheeEttin]

Re: ati drivers keep reverting to mesa

If you remove the Mesa drivers, when it tries to fall back to them, it's going to drop you back to text mode, and you won't like that.

So, when you open up Konsole and say "beryl --replace", what does Beryl say?

[jigyb007]

Re: ati drivers keep reverting to mesa

hey, thanks for your reply. Is there a reason why kubuntu resorts back to mesa3d, I feel like I may be missing a key point or something. Whenever, I try to run beryl it runs a kde session that is all glitchy and w/ flickering video. I also made a seperate XGL session to help run beryl, but this still dosent help. It still goes back to mesa3d drivers. ERR...this is soo annoying....I've been stuck on this issue forever....

[SheeEttin]

Re: ati drivers keep reverting to mesa

But what does it say when you do "beryl --replace"?